Longevity & Rejuvanation

With even the World Health Organization - WHO
acknowledging the contributions of ethno-medicine in tackling
several ailments, physicians too, are having a second look at
alternative therapies all over the world. In this emerging
scenario, the herbal food supplements are considered the most
important tool of ortho-molecular medicine in the new millennium. The rejuvenator group of
herbs traditionally termed as ' Rasayana ' have micronutrients
which improve health, immunity, vigor, vitality and give longevity as
well as protection against stress. All these actions of certain
Rasayana herbs have now been scientifically proved through
experimental as well as clinical studies.

The Rasayana or rejuvenation
herb aims at keeping the enzymes in the tissue cells in their normal
functioning condition. These cells are revitalized and their
composition is changed. The tranquility of the mind is promoted and
the nerves as well as bones are kept soft and smooth. This prevents
the process of aging and keeps the individual free from disease even
at an advanced age.

It is also well known that
one can live a long life, free of disease and aging only when he has a
strong general immunity against diseases. So Rasayana herbs also
contain a general immunity promotive effect. The Ayurvedic concept of
immunity or "Vyadhi-Kshamatva" involves both "Vyadhi Utpada
Pratibandhakatva" i.e. the capability to prevent the onset of a
disease and " Vyadhi Bal Virodhitva " which fights the
developing disease. According to Ayurveda, "Oja" denotes the
substance that imparts strength to various tissues in the body to
resist disease. "Pratyanika Bala" is responsible for increasing
immunity of the host to prevent disease before its onset. While every
person has some "Sahaja Bala" or natural constitutional
strength to fight disease, one could enhance this capacity or
Pratyanika Bala and Oja by taking appropriate " Rasayana "
herbs, which help in building optimum quality tissues which fight
disease.

Nutrition: Medicine of the
FutureThe medicine of the future will no longer be
remedial, it will be preventive; not based on drugs but on the best
diet for health.

The subject of nutrition is massively wide and
reasearched. There is so much to know and so
many seemingly contradictory theories on the subject of nutrition and
its relationship with human physiology and mental function, that most
people, even (or perhaps especially) when partly informed by the
media, etc., find they are confused. The purpose of this site is to
provide a clear explanation of the basic principles of nutrition and
its effect upon your health.

Tomorrow's Medicine

2500 years ago, Hippocrates, the "Father of
Medicine", said to his students, "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy
medicine be thy food". Moses Maimonides, the great 12th century
physician, repeated the Hippocratic statement when he said, "No
illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other
means". In essence, Hippocrates and Maimonides were insisting that
their students practice nutrient therapy.

This type of medical therapy is being used by
doctors today, but only by a minority; qualified Nutritionists, are
the main practitioners today. There is little training in nutrition
at medical schools and unless a doctor has pursued the study of
nutrition from choice, s/he is unlikely to be sufficiently informed
to advise on optimum nutrition.

In 1968 one of the great minds of this century,
twice Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling, coined the term Orthomolecular
Nutrition. "Orthomolecular" is, literally, "pertaining to the right
molecule". Pauling proposed that by giving the body the right
molecules (optimum nutrition) most disease would be eradicated. This
Web site is based on Pauling's premise that "Optimum nutrition is the
medicine of the future".

Ortho vs. Toxic Medicine

Orthomolecular doctors and nutritionists believe
that the treatment of infectious and degenerative diseases should be a
matter of varying the concentration of "right molecules" (i.e.
vitamins, minerals, trace elements, amino acids, enzymes, hormones
etc.) which are present in the body. The optimum nutritional
micro-environment of every cell in the body is vital to achieve or
restore optimal health; deficiencies in this environment cause the
body to be more susceptible to disease and
degeneration.

The list of necessary nutrients is the same for
every human being, but the relative amounts needed by each individual
are as distinctly different as the shape of peoples' bodies, and for
this reason a "one for all" daily nutritional requirement is
impossible to specify.

Why is this? Because the kind of food you eat, the
physical, mental and emotional stress you experience, the environment
in which you live and work, your inherited biochemical and
physiological make-up, the constituents of soil in which your food is
grown, the contents of water you drink, the amount of exercise you
have, and many other factors, determine the fact that you are a unique
individual with unique needs.

In other words, your optimum daily need is
determined by your own biochemical uniqueness, which in turn relates
to your mental and spiritual state. Optimum nutrition is not just
about preventing or reversing disease states - to cross the line where
deficiency is directly causing disease. Optimum nutrition is more than
that, it is about living optimally, where you have room to stretch
your physical, mental and spiritual "muscles" to the full, without
overstepping the threshold at which cellular health in any of the
systems of the body becomes threatened.

By contrast, Toxi-molecular medicine, used by the
majority of doctors (especially during the past 50 years) is the
administration of drugs at sub-lethal levels. Drugs, of course, are
alien chemicals which serve to cover-up the disease process - to mask
the difficulty, not eliminate it. They offer symptomatic relief but
often at the cost of severe and dangerous side effects. They create
dependence on the part of the patient and often complicate the
doctor's job by erasing valuable clues as to the real source of the
trouble. Of course, drugs can save the life of an ill patient, as can
surgery and the other techniques, but the paradigm is changing. We
offer this quote voiced by a doctor in Dublin, "The evidence for
nutritional therapy is becoming so strong that if the doctors of today
don't become nutritionists, the nutritionists will become the doctors
of tomorrow."

Patrick Holford, Director of the Institute for
Optimum Nutrition in London which is at the forefront of research and
education in this field, makes this very clear:

"Tomorrow's medicine will not be
about using nutrients instead of drugs. It will be about looking
through a new pair of glasses which reveal the true causes of disease.
In most cases these lie in faulty nutrition, pollution, stress,
negativity, addiction and lack of exercise - the greatest cause of all
being ignorance. The original meaning of the word 'doctor' is "teacher
or learned man" and that is perhaps the most important role a health
professional can perform.